daizee
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A week or to ago I asked "to sand or not to sand" regarding bevels in the general Shop Talk forum.
Then decided to find out for myself with a low-investment pattern that was knocking around the workbench. It became an almost-Wharncliffe because I was looking at the pretty Salem and JohnnyMac variations.
This is 1/16" 1095 and I had these too-thin 1/8" safety orange G10 scales. Hmm...
This is a chisel grind with a 60grit belt. The heat-treat scale was removed with a scotchbright wheel on a buffer (by the big man in the shop), and the flats sanded to 1000grit. The whole thing has been flitz waxed twice.
The handle divots are to give the kydex something to grip on the handle because there isn't much contouring at all, just rounded edges, really.
This was a quick knife, minimal fuss, to see how unpolished bevels turn out. And a chisel grind on thin stock (first time). And thin scales. And the divot grabber thingies. And... I even re-used a piece of mis-formed kydex from an earlier knife that reheated pretty well.
Conclusions:
* chisel: neat
* thin: too thin, except maybe for something to go everywhere and forget about it. Maybe as a neck knife?
* rough bevel: looks cool. I like that the scratches are uniform and I didn't spend hours trying to sand them out only to have one or two that were impossible to eradicate. Dunno, tho. Not a fabulous idea in carbon steel
* kydex divots: not bad. The kydex was cooler on one side and didn't conform quite as much as the other. I'd do it again, but with a bigger divot on a larger blade.
Thanks for looking, your comments are welcome.
(pics are before the edge is on)
I think you guys call this "Brute de Forge"
:
Too dark is "artsy", right?
And some honest pictures:
Then decided to find out for myself with a low-investment pattern that was knocking around the workbench. It became an almost-Wharncliffe because I was looking at the pretty Salem and JohnnyMac variations.
This is 1/16" 1095 and I had these too-thin 1/8" safety orange G10 scales. Hmm...
This is a chisel grind with a 60grit belt. The heat-treat scale was removed with a scotchbright wheel on a buffer (by the big man in the shop), and the flats sanded to 1000grit. The whole thing has been flitz waxed twice.
The handle divots are to give the kydex something to grip on the handle because there isn't much contouring at all, just rounded edges, really.
This was a quick knife, minimal fuss, to see how unpolished bevels turn out. And a chisel grind on thin stock (first time). And thin scales. And the divot grabber thingies. And... I even re-used a piece of mis-formed kydex from an earlier knife that reheated pretty well.
Conclusions:
* chisel: neat
* thin: too thin, except maybe for something to go everywhere and forget about it. Maybe as a neck knife?
* rough bevel: looks cool. I like that the scratches are uniform and I didn't spend hours trying to sand them out only to have one or two that were impossible to eradicate. Dunno, tho. Not a fabulous idea in carbon steel
* kydex divots: not bad. The kydex was cooler on one side and didn't conform quite as much as the other. I'd do it again, but with a bigger divot on a larger blade.
Thanks for looking, your comments are welcome.
(pics are before the edge is on)
I think you guys call this "Brute de Forge"
:
Too dark is "artsy", right?
And some honest pictures:
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